It appears that they want to have their cake and eat it too, which OSM's license won't let them.

But NearMap isn't good enough. The accuracy estimates say that the NearMap photos are accurate to about 1-3 meters. If you have a 1-meter-wide sidewalk, that's a huge amount of error.

Oh, and Israel too. :-)

Aside from France, Bulgaria also had a season of their Survivor there.

I've thought about this too (mapping streets as areas), but until we get very precise GPS (down to the 10-centimeter level?) or highly-accurately-orthorectified and very-high-resolution aerial imagery, I think this sort of nano-mapping will be several years off.

But I certainly want a short-term solution to mapping routable sidewalks, especially sidewalks without any separation from the street.

How did you get such a zoomed-in image? It seems to be higher than zoom 18.

If the admin boundary has its own postal code as this example seems to do, why not just tag the admin boundary relation with an additional addr:postcode tag?

@Candid, well, the Google Map Maker TOS states that contributors should not copy from copyrighted sources without permission. However, I don't think Google and the Map Maker user base actively police for copyright infringement unlike in OSM.

Nice! Someone has been editing in Romblon also recently. It's good to see other areas in the Philippines get some action. :-)

Thanks for contributing to Romblon! Places outside Metro Manila and other urban areas really could use some map loving. :-)

Well, I've been sending messages to some newbies via the OSM messaging system. I only send to newbies that seem to want to stick around, so I wait until they contribute for at least several days before sending them a welcome message. This is to avoid bothering the one-time contributors. :-)

I guess we need to start "organizing" the welcoming committee to help bring the newbies up to speed. :-)

Well, there *are* some geodata stuff that is ill-fit to be included in OSM (in its current schema). DEM data (whether as a grid of points or as contour lines) is one such thing.

I agree with RichardB's solution. Draw an unconnected way approximately where the road is and just have a note=* tag and definitely no highway=* tags. This makes it visible to other editors but without affecting renderers.

They have male-only urinals on the street there? I thought we only had those here in my city. :-P

Good luck with your son! Despite what some other people here in OSM might think, family comes first before mapping. ;-)

I personally tag the lot a church is on with amenity=place_of_worship. After all, the lot is owned by the diocese and the church includes both the physical building and the church grounds.

I actually wish some other key was used for this feature. There were a few times where I accidentally entered all caps text in the tags because I left the Caps Lock on.

> Or until Google Maps uses OSM instead of NavTeq

Nitpick: Google Maps has dumped Navteq since early last year (around the time Nokia bought Navteq). Since then, Google has relied on Tele Atlas and its own Map Maker.

Well, the house's lot doesn't really occupy the road and we map the center lines of roads, so the lot's area shouldn't touch the road at all. That's how I view things.

But yes, it is a pain to select the proper way among overlapping ways.